Show HN: A working reference implementation of context engineering

45 points
1/21/1970
4 days ago
by linsys

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rao-v

I don’t really think this reflects the current era of challenges?

The “enforcement layer” is the hardest and most important part, and is barely addressed.

- is the answer structurally / syntactically valid?

- is it appropriately grounded and evidenced?

- is it accurate? In what ways does it fall short?

Each of these should be triggering an agent to rework and resubmit etc. or failing that a disclosure to the user about how the answer falls short and should be reviewed / remediated.

This feels like it’s from the era of trying to oneshot a good enough answer.

a day ago

zihotki

No numbers/measurements/benchmarks and you dare call it "a working" one? Any real proofs that this 'works'?

a day ago

newsdeskx

enforcement is the hard part. most context engineering stuff describes what should happen, not what actually stops it from happening. curious how your enforcement layer handles runtime checks vs just descriptive ones

a day ago

slashdave

> the information an AI system needs to produce accurate ... outputs

I would have stuck a qualifier in there

a day ago

r4ge

I feel like AI is going to be doing all the fun stuff and I will just left organizing the data and docs it needs to generate code.

a day ago

ayuhito

Welcome to becoming a project manager.

a day ago

tmpz22

Putting engineering after a term doesnt make it engineering.

a day ago

jryio

Software engineering is certainly not engineering. Even at the highest levels. Real engineering have infinitely more complex interactions in the physical world than symbolic institutions for machines.

a day ago

whattheheckheck

Thats right, no need to understand anything other than symbols on a machine. No people involved. No reality to model. No economics to think about. Nothing like real engineering. Thats for the big boys and girls

a day ago

slashdave

Probably just using the convention started by the term "prompt engineering", which is forgivable.

a day ago

sroussey

not sure i forgive "prompt engineering"

a day ago